About UBA

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India. Its mission is conceptualized as a movement to enable processes that connect institutes of higher education with local communities to address the developmental challenges of rural India through participatory processes and appropriate technologies for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between the society and an inclusive university system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and to upgrade the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors.

Under the aegis of UBA, IIT Roorkee has identified 5 villages namely Beladi-Salhapur, Chandpur-Horawala, Chharba, Meerpur-Muwazarpur and Mohand. The student team identifies problems persisting in the villages and proposes solutions pertaining to the fields including but not limited to sanitation & cleanliness, education, skill development, agriculture, physical infrastructure, social and institutional infrastructure. The team promotes alternative and eco-friendly methods of farming like organic farming, alternative energy sources like biogas in the villages. It also promotes various govt. schemes in the above mentioned villages like the DELP scheme, MSBY of Uttarakhand, Skill India etc.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

by Mahatma Gandhi

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

by R. Buckminster Fuller

Roadmap for Rural Development

Technology For Rural India

Adopting technology is hard for close to 70 per cent of India’s population dwelling in rural areas. Our team tries to facilitate scientific and technological improvements by innovation in products and processes.

Facilitate Rural Entrepreneurs

Recognising the demand for certain goods or services and skilling people to satisfy this demand, thereby providing them with a sustainable source of livelihood.

Socio Economic Development

UBA aims at bringing about a paradigm change in the lives of people of rural India. In that, villagers to be more responsive and proactive in sharing their problems and concerns